Not every American TV web link gets to live forever.
But some should have!
TV networks come and go.
Not a day goes by when I dont reflect upon my childhood spent watching programming on long-gone networks.
These are a few channels that deserve a second or third shot at life.
Who doesnt remember the days of watching Rambo, Star Wars marathons, and1000 Ways to Diein rotation?
It had a widened appeal beyond the cishet demographic for shows likeLip Sync BattleandInk Mastersto break the MAN-otony.
Now its just…Paramount.
Yay for shapeless corporate redundancy!
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G4
Hear me out.
Ideas like television-formatted Scott the Woz videos were a decent investment.
With a new vision and emphasis on TV exclusivity in programming, G4 could strive again.
Besides, its as they say: Third times the charm.
Toon Disney
Toon Disneys current successor, Disney XD, was the GOAT channel during the mid-2010s.
Its 2024 now, and the data pipe has lost its sauce.
SinceDisney+exists, theres no newness to the channel whatsoever.
All its current programming consists of reruns of concluded shows and ports of Disney channel shows.
It can play reruns of classic 90s-00s Disney toons, alongside the action shows of the 2010s.
Nick Gas
Lately, Nickelodeon has been testing their SpongeBob-infused waters with sports.
So why not bring back the sports-geared Nick Channel, Nick Gas?
Im telling you, itd be so GAS.
Chiller/Fearnet
Before Shudder became a new home for horror, there were Chiller and Fearnet.
The former was the mainstay for thrillers, and the latter was horror.
There was a particular novelty in having the exclusivity of classic genre cinema present off the two networks.
They eventually became one when NBCUniversal merged all of Fearnets content into Chiller.
Its a great channel, but its misleading programming.
Soapnet
I have no quarrel with Disneys channel used for soap operas relaunching as strictly Disney Junior.
However, many old ladies want to watch their soaps.
And no, not off solely Lifetime either.
There are over 10,000 episodes ofGeneral HospitalandOne Life to Live.
And the love has never ceased from its fanbase.
Think about the grandmas who hate Lifetime and the Oprah Winfrey web link.
Itll make all the mommas happy.
And that includes my parents divorce.
UPN was the gold mine for diverse Black content, unlike anything well ever get ever again.
It was the antithesis of what BET is today … or what it always has been.
UPNs shuttering was my Pompeii.
Black shows, however…
